{"id":10841,"date":"2014-04-01T22:13:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T03:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=10841"},"modified":"2017-02-25T23:28:09","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T04:28:09","slug":"teacher-pension-its-not-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=10841","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Pension &#8220;Its not too late&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I said not long ago that there was still about five minutes to lobby for the Teacher&#8217;s Pension at the legislature. The Union is finally getting on the stick and has sent some folks on a bus to St. Paul. Frank Wanner told me it was a coach not a school bus. <\/p>\n<p>This email was forwarded to me to show my comments about the DFT ignoring the threat to their pension is being addressed. I&#8217;ve excerpted it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 8:02 AM<br \/>\nTo: East<br \/>\nSubject: FW: Duluth pension merger and Food Drive  Info <\/p>\n<p>Greetings, <\/p>\n<p>Below is a brief update of the pension  merger moving in a forward direction&#8230;it&#8217;s not too late to send Governor Mark  Dayton a letter.<br \/>\nCapitol Room  130<br \/>\n75 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther  King Jr. Blvd.<br \/>\nSt. Paul, MN  55155 <\/p>\n<p>From: Rachuy, Sharon [MN]  [Sharon.Rachuy@edmn.org]<br \/>\nSent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 12:06  PM<br \/>\nTo: Frank T Wanner<br \/>\nSubject: Duluth pension merger, House  budget targets <\/p>\n<p>Greetings  D.F.T. Building Stewards and Executive Board: <\/p>\n<p>Please  share with the members in your building. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks! <\/p>\n<p>Sharon <\/p>\n<p>Education Minnesota&#8217;s weekly update from the Capitol<br \/>\nMarch  18, 2014 <\/p>\n<p>Duluth pension merger moves forward<br \/>\nHouse releases budget targets<\/p>\n<p>Join us for lobby days<br \/>\nLATEST NEWS<br \/>\nDuluth pension merger moves forward<br \/>\nWe understand how important a secure and stable pension is to attract good teachers and encourage them to make teaching a                    long-term career. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re successfully pushing legislation to merge Duluth teachers&#8217; pensions into  the statewide Teachers Retirement Association, with full state funding for the unfunded liabilities. HF1951\/SF1803 passed the Legislative Commission on Pensions and Retirement earlier this month. <\/p>\n<p>The House has included, and it appears the  Senate will include, the $14 million in annual state aid necessary so TRA members and their district won&#8217;t bear the consolidation cost. <\/p>\n<p>The Duluth Federation of Teachers engaged members early on this issue, making calls and writing letters to legislators urging their support and sending a busload to St. Paul to lobby lawmakers in person. <\/p>\n<p>The Duluth Teachers&#8217; Retirement Fund Association faces a severe funding shortfall through no fault of the workers. If the                    Legislature doesn&#8217;t act now, the costs of resolving the issue will only increase going forward. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I said not long ago that there was still about five minutes to lobby for the Teacher&#8217;s Pension at the legislature. The Union is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10841"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19912,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10841\/revisions\/19912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}